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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ModalDialog filterprocs
Message-ID: <2631@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 27 Dec 89 14:27:28 GMT
References: <10125@saturn.ucsc.edu> <33385@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <33385@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:

>pascal Boolean cutPasteFilter( ...

>remember, in pascal a Boolean and an "int" are not the same, or even
>compatible. A pascal Boolean TRUE looks like 0x01?? as an integer on the

pascal char works, on the other hand... :-)


>In addition, your filterProc should also:

Many good suggestions deleted. Now, why doesn't the ROMs support these
nifty features in a flexible way ? It sure would be "easy" to add ! (At
least easier than every programmer doing it his own way)

>At least, that is what _my_ filterProcs do. For an example, see my program
>"Address Book Plus", from Power-Up! software of San Mateo, CA.

Great ! Send me a (free) copy and I'll admire you !

>I am currently adding:
>12.) Handle the <help> button, on the extended keyboard to bring up help
>about this dialog.
>13.) Handle <Command>-?  or <Command>-/  (on the same key in the U.S.)
>as synonyms for the <help> button.

Remember to handle foreign keyboards as well ! I have ? as Shift-+,
and / as shift-7

>There is some justification for all of the above points in the user
>interface guidlines. Have I left anything reasonable out?

Intelligent cut&paste

>Do you think we should have:
>a.) smart quotes? (i.e., replace  "'" and '"' by the appropriate opening
>and closing left and right quote marks.)

Nope. There is lotsa room for ambiguities here. Also, these standards
differ between coutries.

>b.) smart cut & paste? (i.e., when you cut text, it remembers whether the

Oh, there it was. Yes, I like this. MS Word uses it to some extent, but not
the full-fledged version.

>c.) transform <Capital-Oh> to <Zero> and <Small-El> to <One> in numeric
>only fields?

Nope. Beep on all non-numerical signs in a numerical.only field. Remember
that different countries have different comma-point-thousend-whatever-
characters.

Happy hacking !

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